Description
Yvresse is a sparkly and dizzying fragrance. It was first named Champagne and was created in 1993. It is a fragrance suitable for all occasions and moods and absolutely meets the words of Napoleon: “I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate… and I drink Champagne when I lose, for solace.” This sharp floral-fruity fragrance is still not a classic chypre which demands time to open on the skin. Yvresse’s composition sounds short enough, just like the full impact of Champagne: as soon as the brilliant top notes disappear, the scent wraps you with its warmth. The main notes are nectarine, anise, menthol, Otto rose, blue rose, litchi, oak moss, patchouli, vetiver. Yves Saint Laurent changed the name from Champagne to Yvresse because of lawsuits filed by French producers of the sparkling wine that originally bore the name.
The nose behind this fragrance is Sophia Grojsman.
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dialenar – :
Remember when I bought my first bottle of “ Champagne” . It was The feeling of buying style and class in a bottle. I remember The exclusive and sassy bottle with a sparkling scent. Really love it still. Longevity and silage are above average. Will never stop loving this.
Xeroxphozu – :
Yvresse (Champagne) is my treasure in a 50ml bottle,the old version.I’m happy to have this fragrance in my collection.!
Тотек – :
For me,perfume is chic and the Chypre ones are more than chic…I love green chypre, leather chypre and fruity chypre. I simply want all of them. The vintage ones with a lot of oakmoss. I like the gourmand side of the fruity one. The opening of Champagne is sparkling and tasty with the nectarine and litchi notes. The mint and anise bring a nice twist of piquant. Gorgeous and unique.It’s ennivrant like a glass of champagne.
immiscusbaf – :
@Fairyduff
Assuming that this was a sincere representation of events, which might be debatable if you take into consideration certain parts of their introduction, that this other person mentioned using what appears to be a hard to get, vintage scent as an air freshener without performing at least a little bit of research, along with them wearing inoffensive scents at the workplace, I believe that it does not justify such a questionable move. If this is as valuable a scent as claimed and if they received it as a gift, this usually would have required a rather substantial occasion. They might not have valued it accordingly, but that does not justify effectively taking it away from them while possibly deceiving them about its actual value.
luydmila565 – :
While I was browsing forums regarding differences between Champagne (1993) and Yvresse (1996), I came up with this blog which described how the perfume smells: in detail and perfectly. But one thing saddened me, it was how these bloggers who have the “superior” iterations think. While I do acknowledge that the 1st releases are the best, I do not think it warrants discouraging the younger generation or the ones who have missed it out entirely up to its discontinuation and subsequent revival thru the YSL La Collection, from buying the newer versions. The main reason why these vintages are not being sold anymore, well majority of them, is because there is no market for them and simply quoting that the newer ones are a “travesty”, I believe is such blasphemy.
I have smelled the vintage and to my sadness, my bottle’s used up but one thing is for sure, the newer one smells faithful to the vintage with some of its edges slightly different but not altogether an entirely different entity. I’m so tired of trying to ingest whatever these supremacist collectors write, very extremist to the point that I think I’m dealing with hubris. I believe that the greener aspects of the vintage would wear down and that the sweeter components would intensify over time with its true dark green mossy base; and simply comparing this with the La Collection version is utter disrespect, of course, the evolution of Champagne over time would be ages different from the La Collection version. The former would definitely be deeper, sweeter, fizzier and altogether more intensified.
I love how Sophia Grosjman made a chypre using her compote accord, an almost fermented and syrupy decoction found similar in Tresor, it’s absolutely divine. Its jovial and youthful fruits, almost honeyed in reduction, diffused by menthol underneath a verdant and mossy backbone.
lexahmit – :
The best perfume ever made, it is a bubbly happy potion to wear only in days you feel fabulous! It is celebration in a bottle! Chic and feminine! Peach and a just opened bottle of champagne in a fresh green patchouly happy evening!
I first smelled Champagne in the mid 90’s when I was too teen to wear it. One of my best friends’ mom wore it and the traces in the air brought joy to joyous days! Now that I have the confidence and taste for vintage and well composed fragrances, I can finally pull it off.
Elalierroto – :
Oh la la.. someone sold a 100ml bottle to me and I can’t stop sniffing my arms.. I never knew a chypre could be this beautiful. so calming, so mysteriously dark and very potent for an edt. it is pure love for me. Its enchantingly beautiful like a magical forest.
Caranentapobe – :
Not one of my favourites. Very strong for me and I’m not fond of the sharp, heavy scent as I prefer the lighter, sweeter florals. I kept it in my collection as it was gifted to me by my husband and he likes it. But the scent does lasts quite a long time and if I do wear it, it would be more of a night time going to an event sort of fragrance than a date fragrance.
newsoft2010 – :
I finally scored 20 mls of this in the original (gorgeous) bottle and with the name Champagne. I remember my mother having a bottle of this years ago and it is just as magical as I had remembered.
Mossy, peachy, powdery, earthy. Like a spiced peach tea with a dash of apricot liqueur. It makes my heart sing! I will treasure this. Love.
mirjava48 – :
beautiful; sparkling and fresh, yet dark, with cinnamon, spice, apricot and peach, some carnation; completely unique, a depth of musk and patch, hint of mint that brightens everything, not a chypre; honestly? my best description is a soft fruitchouli with cinnamon or a peach pie with cinnamon.
Bevzon – :
Oh beautiful Champagne. It’s festive and bubbly just like its first name (later having to be changed to Yvresse after the champagne companies complained). Fizzy aldehydes with peach, rose, oakmoss…it’s intoxicating like its name and I still wear it every New Years!
scstuor – :
I was too young when I wore it but it is a lovely perfume. For the mature, elegant and seductive woman then. A night out at the theater… and the subsequent intimate moments, I dare say…
jerfoplop – :
This is exactly the type of scent that I cannot wear at all, because it turns horrible on my skin. YSL Yvresse (a.k.a. Champagne) is one of those crazy 1990s fruit salads, such as Cacharel Eden, Chanel Christalle EDP and such. My skin always amplifies those synthetic fruity notes, especially peach, nectarine, apricot, pineapple, melon… yuck! In particular, peach is my bum note. I don’t know what chemicals are used to imitate those fruits, but they certainly stink. Moreover, it seems that Sophia Grojsman’s creations just don’t work for me – I’m yet to find her creation that is barely wearable. To cut the long story short, Yvresse smells like a children’s cough syrup with artificial peach flavour. It’s classified as a chypre and supposed to develop in that direction, but it doesn’t happen – the stupid peach simply overpowers everything.
Lawyer6665 – :
@NicoleET88
My head is spinning with the enormity of this thought
Your friend was using vintage YSL Champagne as air freshener!!!??
Do not continue to feel bad about lifting it from her.
zuomxfezjfa – :
I feel a bit bad, I convinced a work colleague to give me her vintage, nearly full 1 oz bottle, still living in it’s box. It even had the original “Champagne” moniker. She was a very young woman, still enthralled by trendy Fruity-Florals, so she parted with it easily. She said she’d received it as a gift and had only been occasionally spraying it around as air freshener. I feel badly because I knew it was a gem, but was secretly very glad she didn’t, and then happily trotted off with my treasure.
That being said, I don’t even wear it. It’s beautiful artwork but it doesn’t play nice with me. Most perfumes, even the heady and fabulous classics, shift a bit on my skin, allowing me to make it my own. Champagne is Champagne the whole way through. Not until many many hours in does it soften and melt into me. I guess you could say I find it a bit brash. I have the same problem with the original Paris. Maybe YSL isn’t my house.
masahira – :
This review is for the vintage Yvresse. This perfume, even though made in the 90’s, makes me think of the 70’s. A classy lady in a red dress , sipping peach champagne at a Christmas Party. It reminds me of fragrances from the 60s and 70s. At first spray I get very sweet syrupy peaches, cinnamon and apricots. I smell Oak Moss, dry and earthy. Soon after that I smell Apple, even though it’s not listed in the notes. At this point it smells like an apple cinnamon pie. If I sit here and smell it I can sniff out Violet, Iris and carnation the Carnation is the most prominent floral note in the composition. Spicy Carnation and cinnamon, juicy Sweet Peach, warm thick Amber, cool mint and cold earthy oakmoss make this fragrance warm and sparkly. It smells like the holidays. It is a very rich, dense, syrupy, sweet , sparkling, warm Peach champagne. It’s delicious.
eagetsmer – :
From the notes what I detect is stone fruit, violets, rose and definitely oakmoss. These notes do NOT represent what this scent is, except maybe the oakmoss (which is the most dominant note to me). The notes are indeed what is listed, but its so meticulously blended that the notes are not important.
My friend gave me her almost empty bottle of this, several months ago so I could use it as a reference point. There was around 2mL of it, and now there’s around 0.5. I only wish I could’ve purchased this when it was available because it is stunning.
This is a sparkly and beautifully constructed fragrance. While the new version is definitely different, it stayed reasonably true to its roots. Less mossy and less interesting but the fizzy opening remains the same. The stone fruits appear later on for me, not so much as top notes. It progresses like drinking a glass of champagne does. Just stunning.
C_h_e – :
I do remember trying this years ago when it was first released. I’m afraid my young uneducated nose wrote it off as not for me – something I now regret. I’ve been missing out all these years.
This fragrance does indeed sparkle, and made me smile from my first spray – which incidently lasted more that 24 hours. I kept getting wafts of a wonderful clean light fragrance and realized it was me – and my Yvresse.
It is a perfectly balanced complex fruity floral. There is no single note that stands alone after drydown, it is simply so well made and truly beautiful. It is not “too” anything – not too sweet, not too spicy, not too woody – it is simply perfection in a bottle.
What saddens me is that there are fragrance collectors worldwide hanging onto their original “Champagne” bottles, and their vintage Yvresse bottles waiting for the price to go up. This is a fragrance to be worn and enjoyed. Go on people – spray away and sparkle!
DnikD – :
Champagne and I met in 1995. Love at first sniff, I can’t even begin to describe how enamored i am. This is the only perfume that I have ever really remembered and longed for all these years. Warm,rich amber,intoxicating musk and sweet floral, liquid gold in a bottle. This made me feel like a beautiful Persian princess,and no other perfume I have in my collection now can ever compare to this.
marine.87 – :
I bought a bottle of Champagne edt when it was released. It has a beautiful strong bubbly aldehyde note followed by the luscious fruit.
Im sampling Yvresse, the changed name vintage. This as very minimal aldehydes and opens into the fruit much more quickly.This was made when perfumary was still an art form, not a get rich moneymaker with the bottom line as the focus.
Its warm, slightly sweet and intoxicating. If you have to choose one fruit type fragrance in your wardrobe..make it Yvresse/Champagne.
sag1964 – :
Okay, so, remember the scene in Labyrinth when Hoggle gives Sarah the Peach of Questionable Intentions? And the peach sends her off to iridescent-splendid masqueradeville wherein she is suddenly wearing that MAGNIFICENT frothy dress and dances with David freaking Bowie? As the world falls down?
This is without a doubt the perfume equivalent of that.
The more I discover her work, the more Sophia Grojsman is becoming my favorite nose. The bottle I am wearing is a vintage “Champagne” I scored off of EBay for a song. Champagne/Yvresse is a fantasy juicy peach eaten with uninhibited relish on a bed of soft faerie-moss, deep and earthy and rich. It effervesces like Jareth’s magical crystal-bubbles and caresses you with gossamer nectarine, magical patchouli, and the barest whisper of rose syrup, but there are so many gorgeous notes in this flickering in and out my untrained nose can barely distinguish them. It’s Sarah in that magical ballroom, overwhelmed and shy, but intrigued in the face of so many mysterious and fanciful guests dancing in and out of her reeling line of sight, before locking eyes with the Goblin King, he of majestic peach and oakmoss and dry, fragrant spices who grounds the whole effervescent, festive composition.
Totally glorious. Totally fabulous. Dance, magic, dance!
kinston – :
I have a very vintage bottle of the pure perfume from when it was still called Champagne and it’s incredible. It’s bright and bubbly and makes you feel wonderful but having said that it’s also very sensual, I think a lot of perfumes of that time were. It’s a warm and intoxicating perfume and I always get many compliments when wearing it although I save it for special occasions. A small dab on wrists lasts all night and is still present the following morning. For anyone not sure I would say buy it, you won’t be disappointed.
marshrut4431 – :
Ridiculously beautiful.
I have a vintage version of the EDT with the Champagne branding. Yes, the note list is huge and you will smell every single one of those notes. This is an exceedingly well-crafted fragrance, and notes move forward and fade elegantly.
Whether you call it Champagne or Intoxication – it’s the right name this is a sparkling, heady juice.
coolusbru – :
My bottle has Champagne written on it. As the original name suggested, it is a bubbly parfum opens with sparkling aldehydic apricot, lychee, peach, nectarine top notes. There is a hint of sweetness that is just right for me (I don’t like sugary perfume). Later, it develops into warmer floral notes and then dries down to beautiful amber. It is very complex and festive at the same time.
A perfect warm weather perfume but I wear it whenever I feel like or need to lift my mood – as Napoleon said: “I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate… and I drink Champagne when I lose, for solace.”
Stamicitaanise – :
Champagne is a delicious fruit cocktail flavored day wear perfume. Not a single note of champagne but it has the bright sweet bubbly effervescence of a champagne when you first smell it off a bottle. This is my kind of perfume but it’s clearly meant to be worn in summer. As I live in South Carolina where the climate & the weather is warm all year round, even tonight on December 31 New Years Eve, I can still wear this beauty to my New Years Eve party in Hilton Head Island. This is a party perfume if I ever smelled one.
The opening is a boozy fruit punch, like the punch bowl that was spiked with alcohol. A sweet aroma of peach, apricot, and nectarine. In today’s perfume business, the pairing of this much fruit is rare but it was very common in the 80’s and 90’s. This is the same type of sweet fruity or fruity floral that you get from such fragrances as Chloe Narcisse, my favorite, Donna by Pavarotti, and Volupte by Oscar De La Renta. This is a Sophia Grojsman fragrance and her nose can certainly pull off fruity perfume.
This is so delectable, and lifts your spirits right up. You can’t wear this with dreary gloomy black colors. This is a pretty summer dress perfume, halter top, cocktail dress. It’s a feminine fragrance which smells unmistakably classy and elegant but festive. At times it does seem to pay homage to Femme by Rochas. Other times it has the Casmir by Chopard type of vibe.
Rose (and rose oil), jasmine, lily, violet, iris and carnation floral notes compose the floral heart of this perfume. With this many flowers some notes stand out more than others. To me the iris is almost non-existent because I don’t get a powdery iris out of it. It’s more a violet, heady and fragrant, and a rich deep rose, along with a jasmine. A gorgeous floral aroma which is heightened by the sweet presence of fruit notes, namely that apricot nectar.
When dry, this fragrance is a tad more Oriental in the style of Casmir by Chopard. There’s moss, cedar wood, patchouli, syrax and perhaps a little musk. This is a well crafted base which gives the fruit and flowers enough support and it also provides the fragrance with longevity. Super sillage and longevity is what I look for in fragrances.
Even with the Oriental notes including patchouli and styrax, you are still getting a more Western style fruity floral. It has sweet spicy edges. You can even detect cinnamon, caraway and coconut. I wish they had a matching body lotion. Because this is quite strong, just a little of it as all you need. I spritz this two times on my neck and that’s that. Even with just two spritz you get a lot of attention because it does project and people can totally smell it. It’s quite a rich juicy concentration of perfume. One can get so intoxicated! It’s too much for some people.
A good alternative is the Eau de Toilette version which is similar but lighter and with many of the notes taken away. I prefer this au de parfum because I love the way the fragrance develops and it’s fun to pick out which notes are which. Love it. Love everything about it. The fruit, florals and woods.
A touch of vanilla sweetness comes toward the end, a nice touch.
This is on you for well over 8 hours. This is a pretty perfume, fun, festive, flirty, even if mature. It is a celebratory joyful perfume for the life of the party which I’ll be tonight for sure.
Happy New Year
shyda – :
I love this scent. Just love it. Of course I love to drink champagne also, so makes sense. Ms. Sophia Grojsman is truly a Gennie in a bottle, as she can create so many different, and truly unique scents. Champagne reminds me a little bit of Guerlain´s Nahema, with the peach, rose accord. I also get a black currant note in the opening. To me, this scent is one of the few which borders the vintage and the modern eras of perfumes as it has the richness of vintage but also light touches of fruit, with florals all the way along, and spicies and ozone too, so all in all, this is some combo. Sweet, yes as SG does not play around with milktoast blends…, but other tones tame down the sugar and pump out fruity and spicey tones all at the same time. Very very unique. Cannot smell cheap, no matter how hard it would try.
kazimka – :
Yes! – So delicious it hurts…. I love that comment from a previous perfumista 🙂 This juice makes me do a little happy dance!
gut639intitytek – :
This is the happiest, brightest fragrance I own.
I don’t usually go for fruity scents, but this one is like a freshly made fruit drink, juicy and happy and with white wine for refreshment. Effervescent, bubbly, sunny.
I smell this and it makes me smile.
It does evolve and show more complex facets, chypre that it is. But always bright and happy and juicy and like a sunny spring afternoon.
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I own a bottle decanted from a tester when a local perfume store closed.
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Update: It lasts really long. Always fruity and juicy, and not in a sickly sweet way. Oddly, it reminds me of a deeply fragrant pear. I enjoy it a lot.
papuas111 – :
I am so lucky .. Once again I scored a vintage very rare perfume with champagne written on it ..I sprayed it on my wrist immediately as I got home , oh my so unique and powerful , certainly an old school , well made juice..Chypre- fruity isn’t usually my cup of tea in perfumes , but I wouldn’t have left that great opportunity to score this with such a price ..People say it smells like champagne cocktails , or a fruity champagne , I don’t indulge in alcohol or smelled champagne before , but I do think this what expensive champagne should smell like …
hymera326 – :
CHAMPAGNE BEFORE THE LAW SUIT
That law suit was nonsense!
Why did they not sue Germaine Montiel who named his fragrance Champagne as well? This was just a way for those Frenchies in the wine business to get money off millionaire Yves Saint Laurent. Sophia Grojsman, the mistress of all perfumes, created this delicious wonderful fruit drink. This is such a delectable fruit juice. I wish I could drink it without ending up in the emergency room!
The apricot, tangerine and peach, along with litchi makes this such a sweet fruity perfume. The fruit is not the sugary gourmand fruit in today’s perfumes. This is real concentrated fruit juice and more like actual champagne or wine, a fruit cocktail. Smells like drinking fruit flavored champagne in the South of France. No aldehydes but something bright and bubbly about it, like they actually put in a champagne note. Delicious.
The heart is floral with pronounced roses (2 notes of rose) and a violet. I could also detect a white flower I think it might have been gardenia or lily of the valley. The gardenia smelled like vanilla or it was the actual vanilla in the dry down. The vanilla also gives it a creaminess, a sweetness. There’s benzoin which also smells creamy, and incensed. It’s warm with Oriental touches of patchouli, moss and wood. Beautiful fruity Oriental.
This smells very good and it’s perfect to wear in the summer time. It matches up with flirty cocktail dresses. I wore this to parties when I was married to a professor and I myself was a professor in the same faculty. I always received sincere compliments on how nice my perfume smelled on me. I think this is a beautiful and very underrated perfume. I find it a bit similar to Casmir by Chopard, Volupte by Oscar de La Renta and Donna by Pavarotti and I would alternate and wear these 2 perfumes to summer parties.
Delicious champagne.
Bottoms up.
kulibinhb – :
I find that I have a hard time with many of the scents Sophia Grojsman has created (Sun Moon Stars, Trésor, Paris). In this one, we have peach, nectarine AND apricot, three notes that I very much dislike in perfume generally. Together… well, I’m actually surprised at how well I am stomaching this. It’s rather syrupy, somehow.
boxing – :
I’d love to tell you all . . .
. . . just how much . . .
I’m enjoying this delicious . . .
. . . prized . . .
.. . vintage bottle . . .
…discovered at auction . . .
. . . .so-o-o-o- lucky . . .
… to have the winning bid . ..
BUT
takingmyhandstothekeyboardtotype . . .
. . . is making me . . .
takemywrists . . .
. . . .awayfrommynose.
(I’ll get back to you.)
redwin – :
Delicious fruit cocktail. It’s like someone made a champagne with fruit in it. There’s sweet sticky apricot nectar and peaches. There’s also coconut. You gotta really love fruity fragrances. I was hoping that even though it’s not listed there would be an alcoholic scent similar to champagne. No such thing. There is however a vanilla which can almost pass for a bourbon vanilla scent somewhat boozy. For whatever reason it does become boozy but not in the way I’ve smelled “booze” in other perfumes. This is strictly a floral fruity and the kind that was very popular in the 80s and 90s. If you liked Tresor by Lancôme and Cashmir by Chopard or Donna by Pavarotti as well as Volupte by Oscar de La Renta you will embrace this fragrance. It’s also got some cinnamon which I can totally smell. The flowers are not very fragrant this time around. I can make out the violet and rose and the carnation. Sweet floral fruity concoction. Some people have compared it to Femme by Rochas and I can see why. The dry down especially becomes woodsy and filled with all the aromatic and strong base notes of all good perfumes: styrax, wood, vetiver , patchouli amber musk, benzoin, oak moss. I think there was a lot of oak moss. Absolutely beautiful.
Leonsio83 – :
I recieved this as a gift from my Father in 1994, having no idea that YSL were just about to be legally challenged to drop the name from Champagne to Yvresse, I sprayed Champagne daily, throwing bottle into Uni bag, denting the box. Little did I know I was tossing around a potential rare collectable. It was only when I returned to the shops sometime later, to re-buy, I discovered my darling Champagne had gone 🙁 It had been re-branded Yvresse, somewhat different. 20 Years on Im glad to say I have repurchased a boxed Champagne original. As soon as I sprayed it (just one little half spray) I realised this is my perfume of dreams. It has everything a perfume collector could wish for. Even its deep golden colour, resembling the hard work of 100 honey bees, Its bottle (champagne cork metal cage design), even its beautiful golden box with deep Cardinal red lining. Simpy heaven. The scent is deep, syrupy – think of peaches in a pan, pounded down, mixed with exotic spices & honey, a splash of rosewater and glugs of veuve-clicquot grand dame.. Then simmered on an open flame of amber coals. Im not kidding you. Its so delicious it hurts. Its projection is massive, longevity almost makes one second think bedtime bath, as I find I am literally washing it off.. its that long lasting. oh Champagne – why did this love story end?
qwu772intitytek – :
There are so many reviews that say this is heavy. I don’t think it is heavy at all. I’m dabbing from a sample, and it is nice, but I can hardy even smell it after an hour. It is supposed to be a vintage sample, but it does not smell vintage to me at all, or that powdery. I do get the peach, but I have had much more peach in Burberry Woman.
yuriyelzv – :
Oh my, another perfume I just adore. It’s floral, but not overpoweringly so – I hate really strong florals. On me it seems really more woody and green with a hint of spice. It’s also not a cloying or heavy fragrance – a huge bonus living in hot, humid North Queensland – where you definitely don’t want strong heavy perfumes. So a spritz straight from the fridge (I store all my fave perfumes in the fridge door – where they last for years without going stale or evaporating) gives a wonderful cool, fresh boost for the day, or night, that always elevates my feel-good factor.
AlexPaladiy – :
Opening up a bottle of CHAMPAGNE to wear on my skin for New Years Eve. Sophia Grosjman my favorite modern nose is behind the artistry of this beautiful fragrance for Yves Saint Laurent. It was renamed Yvresse after the French champagne industry sued Yves Saint Laurent for even calling it champagne! Why didn’t they do the same thing with Germaine Montiel’s Champagne I wonder. YSL Champagne is not as alcoholic a champagne as Montiel’s Champagne which contains a note of actual champagne. This one wears like the biggest most delicious fruit cocktail ever. Apricot, nectarine, and peach are each noticeable as the fragrance starts to work it’s magic. Then you get some floral scents of carnation, rose, iris, violet and lily of the valley. The rose and carnation are the bigger floral accords. But these flowers are not your average floral scents. They have been spiced up with cinnamon and sweetened by coconut and vanilla. This is a gourmand fragrance but richer and heavier with 21 notes including base notes of patchouli and woods like oak moss oak and even some vetiver. This was a 90’s floral chypre that had a lot going on. It can behave like Femme by Rochas – fruity with musky dry down. But I love it. If you liked vintage Femme you’ll love this one. It’s beautiful and a fragrance that always makes me want to celebrate and wear it at parties. I associate this fragrance with summer and spring but it can be worn at any time in warm climate weather even in December like Florida where it’s warm all year round. No getting anything unisex out of this not even with the woods patchouli and musk. This wears like the fruit in Carmen Miranda’s hat. Love it! Happy New Year.
bigzaraza – :
Fun, light fruity chypre. As it dries down, it reminds me of one of my old discontinued 90’s favourites, Deci Dela (thanks to the nectarine, I imagine). Love it.
ak4487bi – :
This was my first venture into the chypre family, and I’m honestly still undecided with this one.
I was fortunate enough to obtain a vintage decant and the fragrance itself is gorgeous. At first sniff, Champagne is most certainly not my perfume, but after a couple hours she transforms into a classic bombshell while still being a demure lady. I’d imagine if Jayne Mansfield and Jackie O had a love child and that child created a perfume, Champagne would be it.
It’s likely that it’s just a category of fragrance notes I’m still unfamiliar with, but I’ll keep my decant and continue testing.
igor3000gt – :
I cant seem to find the original one in new zealand can someone plz help
enveveFlify – :
Ladies – what have we been missing? Deception in the form of sickly-sweet, over-laundered scents that smell like rainbows marketers like to disguise as “perfumes.” All the while, we drink the champagne until we realize that it’s as cheep as a poor-man’s beer (or poor woman’s).
Yvresse is like capturing a little bit of the golden ray shining down from the heavens. This little golden masterpiece will go on my top shelf list, along with Cuir de Russie. This fragrance is beautiful, timeless, spicy, sweet, mysterious, and unique. What have I been missing? It’s Yvresse in my collection!
It’s so beautiful, I almost want to tear. Xoxo
nbvtyygibi – :
The moment I put this on, it reminded me of something. Hmm, maybe I had a grade school teacher who wore this? But it’s not remotely old enough for that. Think. Think. Think.
Then it hit me – Gucci Rush! It has the same peach skin, lactonic character but somehow dowdier. A kind of Grandmotherly Rush.
I like it a lot, but I like Rush more.
tanchows888 – :
This is one fragrance I really dislike. It is sickly sweet to me and really unpleasant. The longevity is indeed a factor when others around are wearing it, and it can have a real impact on those of us that are not fans.
There are so many nicer fragrances.
Okuw – :
I bought my first bottle of Champagne unsniffed when it came out in 1993, for the bottle to be honest. At that time I got a mini parfum of it too, I think as gwp. I wasn’t expecting a lot as I was (and still am) a lover of orientals and it was advertised as fruity floral. The first sniff of the unique sparkling, aldehydic, juicy peach-apricot-spice top notes on my skin was all it took to convince me it was true love. I’d probably pay for a bottle that just gave me a few minutes at a time of that. It’s a bonus that the woody, lightly powdery, rosy cinnamon heart is gorgeous and the oakmoss-amber drydown lasts forever. It’s elegant; crisp and dry, rich but not heavy. Sillage is good but not too much for strict modern standards. It’s very different from the super sweet fruity scents that are popular now, so it’s probably not the best blind buy for most millenials. I’ve kept it in my collection ever since 1993, one of my top ten.
I finally got a purse spray of the Yvresse version recently. It’s very similar in scent to Champagne – a little bit less cinnamon and slightly less aldehydic and powdery. The longevity and sillage are both a good chunk less. All in all it’s one of the better YSL reformulations I’ve worn.
Btw, for Eloquaint or anyone else wishing for an even lighter version, there’s Yvresse Legere. (legere means light)
1614 – :
I have had this perfume for the most part of my life… I first had the Parfum when it was still calles Champagne and fell instantly in love with it. Ans still lkve it now that’s Yveresse even thogh I have the slight impression that Champagne was a bit more stronger and less fruity. But it is wonderful to wear at night.
mastha83 – :
Strong, unique, sprarkling, unforgettable, dangerous – not for everybody. Extremely elegant and expressive but not loud. I’d love to be able to wear it one day – now it overwhelms me a bit but still I love it.
filtikultapisti – :
I find this very similar to jaipur for women. Very strong fragrance.
xsweb55 – :
My mom had got me this for my birthday back in 1993 when it 1st came out yrs and yrs ago and omg I was beyond dissapointed when I could no longer find Champagne…I seriously loved this perfume ( I still have my original bottle that is more than 1/2 full lol) but when I found out it was renamed I was soooo beyond happy!! Defi